Brian Cox Blasts “Woke Culture” as “Truly Awful”

I don’t like using the word “woke” because it’s too simplified a term. Yes, it’s an easy way of entering a debate, to say this is “woke” and that is “woke,” but the substance gets lost in the process.

In pure and simple terms, these past 5 plus years we’ve had a movement that demands we mass-treat women and minority groups as different and special, which, ultimately, becomes antithetical to equality. That’s woke, as far as I’m concerned.

It’s an idea having been pushed to such an extreme, that it’s become contrary. What it’s done is by trying to eliminate racism it’s ended up elevating race. The folks pushing “woke” just don’t have the capacity to realize that.

“Succession” actor Brian Cox has now criticized “woke culture.” In a recent sitdown with Piers Morgan, he says it’s a trend of cleansing, purity, if you will, that’s been fueled, first and foremost, by social media.

“I don’t think social media helps. It hinders, not helps,” Cox said. “I think it points out too readily inadequacies. And the whole woke, what we’ve talked about before, the whole woke culture is truly awful […] and the shaming culture.”

He continued, “I don’t know where it comes from. Who are the arbiters of this shaming? And it’s very hard to pin them down, and, it turns out, it’s usually a bunch of millennials. I suppose in a way they’re probably saying, ‘Well you’ve all screwed it up so we may as well do something about it.’ But it’s from the wrong principle. It comes from the wrong place.”

Cox believes cancel culture is “fascist McCarthyism” and filled with “hypocrisy.”

I find the whole thing completely hypocritical. I am not religious but there is a thing in the bible where it says, ‘Let he or she without sin cast the first stone’ and there seems to be a lot of casting of stones. And it is like a virus.

Earlier in the year, Cox blasted the recent censor-filled rewrites of Roald Dahl novels as a “disgraceful” byproduct of “woke culture,” via Times Radio He also defended J.K. Rowling after she was “unjustly” called transphobic.